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UCT News April 2015 UCT News April 2015 From the Vice-Chancellor's desk Issue 04 Dear friends, colleagues, students and staff The statue of Cecil John Rhodes has been at the centre of a lot of attention recently. And while the question of whether, when and how it should be removed is being resolved, I’d like to take a moment to draw your attention to the bigger issues it stands for, and where we go from here. UCT is an old institution that has seen much change over the years. Sometimes it’s been at the forefront of that change; at other times it has resisted it. Twenty-one years into our country’s democracy, 186 years from our founding, we’re again at another turning point. The #RhodesMustFall campaign was never simply about a statue. It was about symbols, names and heritage more generally; and beyond that about making all students and staff feel like they belong at UCT, about creating an inclusive culture. It is a process that can benefit from the inputs of our staff, students, alumni and broader UCT community. Let me encourage alumni: if you ever felt unwelcome at UCT – whether because of your race, class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language or culture – we invite your participation, your ideas, your passion and ability to imagine new possibilities for the university. What was it that made you feel you did not fully belong? Any ideas what UCT could do to change that? On the other hand, you may have taken to UCT like a fish to water – coming to UCT felt natural. The symbols and names, history and architecture were familiar to you from childhood. Perhaps you find it incomprehensible that these names and symbols could be controversial, offensive, signalling exclusion. If this is how you feel we want you to participate too; by reading all that is being said, by opening yourself to new views, by sharing your particular stance and by helping us with ideas on how to make everyone feel included and recognised on campus. Whether your view is one of the above or somewhere in-between, please do engage. This is an exciting time for UCT; a time of significant rupture with the past and commitment to an inclusive future. I believe that we are in a position to lead the discussions in the country – in higher education and even beyond that. It’s a long road ahead, filled with difficult conversations and uncomfortable self- reflection. It’s also a path that will define us in the future. Finally, I want to assure everyone that whilst it may seem from media images and the extensive coverage of the Rhodes Statue protests that this has been disruptive, even aggressive, in fact the protests have generally been disciplined, peaceful and considered. The protesters have engaged in serious teach-ins (from a range of people including our academics) in Mafeje room in the Bremner Building, and I believe for many this is indeed an educational experience and they ultimately have the university’s interest at heart. Classes have not been missed nor disrupted. One should not have to make these points, but unfortunately such disruption is the routine in the protests that occur on many other university campuses in South Africa. Let me also assure all that we will not tolerate illegal acts. Where there have been isolated incidents of behaviour that amounts to intimidation we are investigating disciplinary action. I look upon this time as an opportunity for the UCT community to refocus our transformation agenda, to accelerate our efforts on the way towards an inclusive and diverse community where all feel at home and enthusiastically make their contribution. Warm wishes Max Price Vice-Chancellor UCT's first MOOC starts 16 March 2015 With more than 6 000 enrolled students from over 100 countries, UCT's first free online course or MOOC (massive open online course) starts today, with enrolment open until the very last day of the course. The six-week course, titled Medicine & the Arts: Humanising Healthcare, explores the intersection of medicine, medical anthropology and the creative arts. In the first week, participants will be introduced to the course conveners, Assoc Prof Susan Levine and Prof Steve Reid, who will outline the premise for the course. The theme for the week is The heart of the matter – a matter of the heart, with Reid interviewing a heart surgeon, a poet, and a transplant recipient, in the theatre where Dr Chris Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant in 1967. Participants will engage with the material through video lectures, comment spaces and short written assignments, and connect with other students through the course discussions, Twitter, Facebook and other social media. Three body maps on the outer wall of UCT's Medical School library trace the outlines of a story of health and HIV – how the virus entered the body, and how a life journey has changed course since that time. These illustrations were made by three women in the Bambanani Group, and translated into mosaic by Lovell Friedman. Assoc Prof Laura Czerniewicz, director of UCT's Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), believes that the university's involvement with MOOCs will be a means of addressing the imbalance in how knowledge is produced and disseminated around the world. "The vast majority of MOOCs being produced in the world are offered by universities in the global north; while their students come from all over the globe. This has the effect of rendering local knowledge and curricula invisible. It is really important for universities in Africa and other countries in the global south to produce MOOCs based on local knowledge, experiences and curricula," she explains. Registration for the next MOOC, What is a mind?, is now open. The course starts on 11 May, and hopes to bring participants to a fuller understanding of what a mind is through four aspects – subjectivity, intentionality, consciousness and agency. To register for these courses, go to: www.futurelearn.com/courses/medicine-and-the-arts www.futurelearn.com/courses/what-is-a-mind For more information on MOOCs: Making a MOOC MOOCs around the world Story by Abigail Calata. Photo by Michael Hammond Shacks on the cool track 13 February 2015 Shacks have sprung up on the upper campus of UCT. They are not part of a burgeoning informal settlement, but are there to test an innovation that helps shacks stay cool in summer. Mark Algra shows off the shack blanket he designed. The shack on the left is a standard shack and the one on the right is an experimental shack at the University of Cape Town. Photo by Adrian de Kock Thanks to little more than recycled plastic bottles and wet charcoal, the temperature in one shack is 10 degrees celsius lower than in the one next door, and 3 degrees celsius lower than outside. Cape Town business owner Mark Algra partnered with UCT to develop methods of reducing temperatures in shacks during summer and retaining heat during winter, for less than R1 000. By cladding the outside of the corrugated steel experimental shack with white-painted PET cloth made from old cooldrink bottles, the temperature inside was drastically reduced. Algra says the synthetic fibre also has UV-resistant properties, and could be used as a tarpaulin or shade cover. "The white paint reflects UV rays, and the PET cloth acts as another barrier to heat," he says. The Cool Shack Project came about after Algra was inspired by the World Design Capital, hosted in Cape Town last year, to design something to improve people's lives. He approached Dr Kevin Winter from UCT's Environmental and Geographical Science Department to help develop the idea. "People lock their shacks and go to work; and in summer, the shacks become baking ovens," says Winter. The experimental shack also has water-soaked charcoal in pockets on the inner walls. As the water evaporates, the air cools, helped by a ventilation system that draws out warm air through a dome covering a hole cut in the roof. The City of Cape Town reports that about 140 000 households in its area are shacks, so such an innovation would have a large impact. Winter says a pilot project is being planned with the Shack Dwellers International NGO. "We need to have real-life application before we can take it to the public," he says. Story by Farren Collins, and first published on Times Live. Skydiving centenarian is 'inspired to live' 27 March 2015 'Inspired to live' is the name of a series of public talks 100-year-old Georgina Harwood is planning to deliver; and with a résumé like hers, it's little wonder. UCT alumna Georgina Harwood performed her third skydive on her 100th birthday. Harwood, née Mitchell, graduated with a BA from UCT in 1934, but it's her more recent escapades that have grabbed headlines. If you imagined her 100th birthday party would involve much sitting, and perhaps a spot of tea ... perish the thought. Instead, Harwood jumped out of a plane (yes, it was flying – thousands of feet above terra firma). It wasn't her first time, either. The centenarian is gaining quite a reputation as a skydiver, having first taken the plunge at a spritely 92, and then again at 97. Hardwood's latest jump was in aid of the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI), and she's opened an activist page on the website www.givengain.com, where people can donate money to buy lifejackets for NSRI volunteers. Skydiving was just the beginning of the birthday bash.
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